This Alder Wants City Council’s Immigration Committee to Actually Meet
The City Council’s committee on Immigrant and Refugee Rights is slated to meet this morning — the same committee that failed to meet for over a year even as the city scrambled to house thousands of arriving migrants and asylum-seekers. Now, it has a new chair: Ald. Andre Vasquez of the 40th Ward. Vasquez sits down with host Jacoby Cochran to talk about how the crisis has affected his North Side ward, what’s on the agenda for today’s meeting, and how Chicago can actually become a “welcoming city” for immigrants.
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